Johanna Winant
@johannawinant.bsky.social
Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her. Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
7000-word T.J. Clark essay about the Chauvet cave paintings? Counting the minutes 'til lunchtime so I can turn this thing up to 11
T.J. Clark · Night Visitors: What I saw in the cave
The world exceeds us. It comes to us out of darkness. The cave is the universe, the nightly presence of that unknown...
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Brian Glavey@glavey.bsky.social · 5d agoLaura Heffernan and I are proposing an in-person seminar on "Aesthetics for Amateurs" for ACLA 2027. It's about recentering creativity and making--especially amateur making--in our theories of the aesthetic. If this is your jam, please consider submitting! www.acla.org/seminar/d6b4...
It's an honor that Critical Inquiry published the first review of my new book, Lyric Logic.
Critical Inquiry@criticalinquiry.bsky.social · 5d ago"Modern American poetry, she argues, reasons inductively rather than deductively, moving from particulars towards provisional generalities rather than letting a governing intuition shine through it." Sneha Chowdhury on Johanna Winant's Lyric Logic: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/sneha_chowdh...
If you’re lost in Robert’s Bookshop on the Oregon Coast, you might turn a corner and find yourself standing on the edge of a plane’s cockpit
the amount of gratitude and even affection I have for my robot vacuum/mop is surely a sign of how far I've fallen as a human being, but nevertheless
Is there a definitive book or essay outlining and theorizing the genre of the gothic novel?
It's almost here!!!!! (all credit to @sinsleyh.bsky.social for knowing I'm not on Instagram and sending me this) www.instagram.com/p/DbObKAFCTw_/
Smith & Taylor Classics on Instagram: "SNEAK PEEK unboxing! “Dodsworth” by Sinclair Lewis in conversation with Nissa Ren Cannon and Sheila Liming coming soon ♥️🧳💃🏻 Smith & Taylor’s 2026 Subscription ...
109 likes, 4 comments - smithandtaylorclassics on July 25, 2026: "SNEAK PEEK unboxing! “Dodsworth” by Sinclair Lewis in conversation with Nissa Ren Cannon and Sheila Liming coming soon ♥️🧳💃🏻 Smith & ...
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This is just nuts - in my experience, students need these resources now more than ever
The Harvard Crimson@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · last wk.The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated, prompting backlash from current and former tutors. Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Came up with the final reading list for the impostors and fugitives American novel class.
except for a year of wanting to be an archaeologist, I think I just about always wanted to do this?!
Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 2w agoI always wanted to be a cult leader. (That or a reality show star.)
My 9th grade English syllabus is so saturated with the @johannawinant.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social close reading phrases I’m afraid they’re going to have me cult deprogrammed
I've repressed the years of teaching online while also watching my little kids except lecturing on "The Dead" while my toddler napped and my kindergartner played. After class was over, I turned around and the 5 year old had put all her stuffed animals to sleep carefully in a row by her brother...
Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · 2w agoThe best thing in the world is when a visiting little kid raises their hand to ask a question in one of my lectures. It's only happened a few times in my life, but god, I love it so much.
Yeah I think the Odyssey* is great— it’s so old and yet it still really really works *my parents‘ totally perfect minivan from 1995 that I learned to drive on and also drove all around town today
it's not just that people bring their dogs to cafes and hardware stores in portland instead of tying them up outside, it's that the cafes and hardware stores are so happy about this and many have photos of their dog patrons
OK, if you were waiting to find out what kind of fox I am before you pre-ordered Relatability, wait no more. These generous blurbs (or blurps, as O'Hara called them) just posted and I am seriously verklempt. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Gallup-Lumina poll on college confirms that Americans are upset about the personal politics of professors--that is, 11% are concerned. Three-quarters are upset about lack of affordability. Colleges should ignore the Twitter / Atlantic debates and lower costs while heading to debt-free for all
academics: do you think that a book talk after the book is published should differ from a talk about the same book from before it was published?
One thing AI can't do: experience the world through my sensorium sinykin.substack.com/p/to-make-th...
To Make the Stone Stony
I want to see again
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I’m extremely excited about going to see someone recite a large chunk of Finnegans Wake
what’s the opposite of coffee, like a delicious beverage you can have in the morning to calm down?
My response to Appiah's "field report" is up: please repost www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...
Opinion | Dear Critics of Literary Studies: Do the Reading
The philosopher’s report on the state of literary studies is a shambles.
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This is such an excellent piece by @sarahjones.bsky.social and pairs pretty well (I think) with one I published yesterday on a mainstream preoccupation with the performance of class, but not the expression of true horror at the rounding up and killing of human beings:
Sarah Jones@sarahjones.bsky.social · 3w agoI wrote about my mother’s family, their lives of working poverty on the coast of Maine, and the truly bizarre and detached conversations our pundits are having about Platner and working-class America nymag.com/intelligence...
morning crowd, this will be marvelous
Brian Glavey@glavey.bsky.social · 3w agoSo I'm starting a podcast about friendship and aesthetic experience called "Some Marvelous Experience." I've posted a brief teaser that explains a little bit about the main idea and will drop the first episode soon. Please subscribe and help me spread the word! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
if you brought your kids to visit your parents, bought untold amounts of strawberries at the farmer's market, and your mom is immunocompromised I recommend this cake! everyone was skeptical ("I don't like hot fruit") and even though I did tons of substitutions, it worked, everyone really liked it
Strawberry Spoon Cake Recipe • 5★
This unfussy cake with a top layer of jammy strawberries is so gooey it’s best to serve the whole thing with a spoon. The batter comes together quickly with minimal effort, using basic pantry ingredie...
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So I'm starting a podcast about friendship and aesthetic experience called "Some Marvelous Experience." I've posted a brief teaser that explains a little bit about the main idea and will drop the first episode soon. Please subscribe and help me spread the word! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Some Marvelous Experience
Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...
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the time has come to reveal my new favorite hat
Brian Glavey@glavey.bsky.social · 3w agoThe project is a way to keep talking with other people about one of the central theses of my forthcoming book, Relatability: namely the idea that the way not to lose an aesthetic experience is to share it with other people. @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
NONE OF YOU TOLD ME THAT BILL IRWIN PLAYS THE CYCLOPS?!? buying tickets immediately